News

[Cobra5]

Recreated. Damn the infection!

[palla]

Oh sure, don't let me do it.

[Cobra5]

That's not news you spammer.

[hyper4pyropixie]

News-
Part of Nothing Interesting Happens Here..... News paper.

Rodent vs. Car.
Earlier today a friend of my car borrowed our Explorer because his car stopped running. It was found out that a mouse (or rat) had crawled into his car and crew through some of the wires.
Well the car is now fixed, and runnig great, so ha ha mouse.

[Cobra5]

More news-

The mouse was actually not a mouse, but it was really cobra, sleepwalking, thinking that alien glove-men with porrly crayoned-on faces were attacking and the only way to defeat them was to destroy their control compnents by chewing through the wires. It so happened to be the wires of your friends car that found themselves on the wrong end of an incisor assault.

[BugHunter]

Yay, you guys finally revived my thread (thats right, I was the one that created it in the first place AND DONT YOU FORGET IT!!!) hehe

[palla]

Statue of Liberty
reopening soon
Security upgrade due
to be done this summer
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:17 p.m. ET March 30, 2004NEW YORK - The Statue of Liberty, closed immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will reopen to the public this summer, officials said Tuesday.

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Pledges of $7 million in donations, including a $100,000 gift from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will finance upgrades that were necessary at the national monument before it could be reopened.

“Safety of our citizens and preservation of the statue are our main goals,” said Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton, acknowledging that the 118-year-old statue was “an attractive terrorist target.”

The billionaire mayor, who joined Norton at a news conference on the island, said he was “proud to have played such a small role” in getting the statue available to the public once again.

According to Norton, an examination of the national monument revealed potential for fire problems and a lack of exits. Screening procedures, much like those at airports, and a reservation system to reduce long lines will be implemented once the monument reopens in late July, Norton said.

She said after the upgrades are completed, the public will be allowed to climb the 354 steps to the statue’s crown, or observation deck.

The 151-foot-high Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on a 58-acre island in New York Harbor.

The island was closed for 100 days after Sept. 11, 2001. Airport-type metal detectors were installed to screen visitors boarding the ferry from lower Manhattan before the island was reopened in December 2001.

Since the terrorist attacks, officials have said the number of visitors to Liberty Island have dropped by 40 percent.

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is overseeing the upgrade project.

[Cobra5]

There won't be anymore attacks on american soil.

They attacked us hoping that it would break our morale by destroying symbols of power, which it did the opposite of (american morale skyrocketed). Then they tried to kill people who would get lots of publicity- people in the news business, people in the government- with little success... most of their plans didn't work, and instead, all security was tightened.

So they gave up more or less. All of their plans were having the opposite affect of what they wanted. They're not stupid- attack us on home ground will only hurt their cuase. Yeah, some people might try to do some smaller stuff, but no orginized terrorist organization will try anything serious anymore.

[Tassatul]

I like to think its because we went in and smote Iraq, so theyre a little scared Anywho, hear about how people are saying that Bush may have set up the 9/11 attacks in order to overthrow Iraq? This aught to be interesting. . .

[palla]

Tassatul said:

I like to think its because we went in and smote Iraq, so theyre a little scared Anywho, hear about how people are saying that Bush may have set up the 9/11 attacks in order to overthrow Iraq? This aught to be interesting. . .

Why would he have done that? Set up all those people?

[copyKatt]

not to mention killed all those people... i dunno, i doubt he did. thats kinda like how the new president/dictator thats being elected for china supposidly set up an attempted assassination... for himself. thay say he did it for sympathy becuase he was only shot in the leg... or something...

[Cobra5]

I've heard a lot of people saying that 9/11 was a conspiericy to invade the middle-east since it began. Most of the arguments is total conspiercy crap, so you can ignore.

From what I can tell though, we are going to far with it. Firstly, we could (very easily) have cars that run are far mroe efficient fuel then gas. They would be more powerful, mile-efficien, cleaner, and cheaper. Yet, for some reason, no-one shows any interest in this whatsoever (which reminds me of some stories about france... ). Secondly, we coincidentally 'liberate' two middle-eastern countries almost simultanously... and Iroq didn;t do anything to provoke it. I mean yeah, Saddam is bad and all... but there was no single event that made every say "Let's go get him for that!!". He's been doing the same stuff for years and years... then all of the sudden we decide to go after him... I don't get it...

Then this recent news story... we are attacking a town full of anti-american rebels... the news reports are conflicting. They say, in the same report, that we are making a sudden offensive, then say that we may not have enough troops there to defend ourselves. It dosn't seem to make any sence. Why would we attack them if we didn't have enough troops?

Er, I'm rambling. Here's my point:
Quite frankly I think something is not as it is. However, I doubt there is anything THAT big, that the whole thing is a giant conspiericy. My guess is that we are trying to end the corruption and regimes in the middle east once and for all, and doing so without mercy. Then we just bend the truths here and there to make it sound a little less harsh. But, its just a guess.

[BugHunter]

The world system is full of evil...

[DOOFY]

i have some news, some very sad news, one of my friends and also my coworker was killed in a car accident wednesday night. i didn't know him that long but he was a really cool guy. many people at work are taking it pretty hard and so am i.if anyone had the expresstimes from thrusday there is a picture on the front of the local section, two cars wrecked one facing a tree, that was his.

[Deimos]

oh man...dang...
sorry to hear that